Author : Kenneth Uva
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2021-05-28
Category :
ISBN :
This is a novel about the conflict between the Italian American roots and the desire to be a real "American" for a young boy growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s.
Author : David Evanier
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2002-01
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : 9780413740700
The Mob couldn't live with Jimmy Roselli and it couldn't live without him. Roselli resisted their influence and succeeded in making a name for himself in the nightclubs where 'they used to have intermissions to take the wounded out' with his amazing vocal range and passion. passion and power .
Author : Martin H. Levinson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 2011-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1462017134
Martin H. Levinson lived in Brooklyn from his birth in 1946 to 1962, the height of the baby boom following World War II. He grew up two blocks from Ebbets Field, the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and attended Erasmus Hall High School, which boasts alums such as Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, and chess-wiz Bobby Fischer. The author's personal recollections of his middle-class childhood in Brooklyn during the 1950s alternate with chapters detailing seminal cultural events of that era including the advent of television, fast-food restaurants, big cars with fins; desegregation and the white flight to the suburbs; rock and roll, beatniks, hula hoops, The Kinsey Reports, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Playboy, and much more. Part memoir, part social history, Brooklyn Boomer offers a captivating portrait of Brooklyn and America in the mid-twentieth Century.
Author : Mike Fiorito
Publisher : Ovunque Siamo
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 2019-05-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781733994804
Both confronting and courting stereotypes, Call Me Guido describes growing up Italian-American during the 70's in Queens, NYC.
Author : Mark Rotella
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0865476985
Tells of the story of how Italians integrated into America in the 1950s in part through the music of such singers as Enrico Caruso, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, and others.
Author : Thomas Maier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1510741720
From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of MASTERS OF SEX, a True Story of Espionage and Mobsters, Based on the Never-Before-Released JFK Files, and Optioned by Warner Bros. Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America’s most remarkable espionage plots ever—with CIA agents, mob hitmen, “kompromat” sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly intrigue. In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired by the CIA to kill Cuba’s Communist leader, Fidel Castro, only to wind up murdered themselves amidst Congressional hearings and a national debate about the JFK assassination. Mafia Spies revolves around the outlaw friendship of these two mob buddies and their fascinating world of CIA spies, fellow Mafioso in Chicago, Cuban exile commandos in Miami, beautiful Hollywood women, famous entertainers like Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack in Las Vegas, Castro’s own spies in Havana and his double agents hidden in Florida, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI snooping, and the Kennedy administration’s “Get Castro” obsession in Washington. Thomas Maier is among the first to take full advantage of the National Archives’ 2017–18 release of the long-suppressed JFK files, many of which deal with the CIA’s top secret anti-Castro operation in Florida and Cuba. With several new investigative findings, Mafia Spies is a spy exposé, murder mystery, and shocking true story that recounts America’s first foray into the assassination business, a tale with profound impact for today’s Trump era. Who killed Johnny and Sam—and why wasn’t Castro assassinated despite the CIA’s many clandestine efforts?
Author : Lamar Waldron
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2010-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 145876060X
Legacy of Secrecy tells the full story of JFKs murder and the tragic results of the cover-ups that followed, as revealed by two dozen associates of John and Robert Kennedy, backed by thousands of files at the National Archives. The result of twenty years of research, it finally tells the full story long withheld from Congress and the American people.
Author : Jimmy Lin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3031021363
Our world is being revolutionized by data-driven methods: access to large amounts of data has generated new insights and opened exciting new opportunities in commerce, science, and computing applications. Processing the enormous quantities of data necessary for these advances requires large clusters, making distributed computing paradigms more crucial than ever. MapReduce is a programming model for expressing distributed computations on massive datasets and an execution framework for large-scale data processing on clusters of commodity servers. The programming model provides an easy-to-understand abstraction for designing scalable algorithms, while the execution framework transparently handles many system-level details, ranging from scheduling to synchronization to fault tolerance. This book focuses on MapReduce algorithm design, with an emphasis on text processing algorithms common in natural language processing, information retrieval, and machine learning. We introduce the notion of MapReduce design patterns, which represent general reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems across a variety of problem domains. This book not only intends to help the reader "think in MapReduce", but also discusses limitations of the programming model as well. Table of Contents: Introduction / MapReduce Basics / MapReduce Algorithm Design / Inverted Indexing for Text Retrieval / Graph Algorithms / EM Algorithms for Text Processing / Closing Remarks
Author : Vincent Graziano
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 2020-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780578644660
A novel of friends who go above and beyond to save a friend from prison.
Author : Marc Myers
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520305515
Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz’s post-war styles. Rich with the voices of musicians, producers, promoters, and others on the scene during the decades following World War II, this book views jazz’s evolution through the prism of technological advances, social transformations, changes in the law, economic trends, and much more. In an absorbing narrative enlivened by the commentary of key personalities, Marc Myers describes the myriad of events and trends that affected the music's evolution, among them, the American Federation of Musicians strike in the early 1940s, changes in radio and concert-promotion, the introduction of the long-playing record, the suburbanization of Los Angeles, the Civil Rights movement, the “British invasion” and the rise of electronic instruments. This groundbreaking book deepens our appreciation of this music by identifying many of the developments outside of jazz itself that contributed most to its texture, complexity, and growth.
